"Pro-Tech/Anti-Tech??"

As an IT student, I would really like to express my opinion about the advantages and disadvantages of technology and when I mention technology, I am referring to these new modern devices such as Computers, Cellular Phones and etc. . . These technologies can affect our lives like for instance in school, at home and even in work both positively and negatively. Technologies are created to make our lives much easier and efficient. For instance, we can communicate with our love ones in just a snap even if distance is present through Cellular Phones, calling and texting them about emergencies are of a big help and it can also make our lives much easier in school because instead of reading thick books, we can easily research in the Internet through the Computer and this is also helpful in work, instead of handwritten reports done by an employee or a clerk and passing it personally to your boss, you can easily type your reports then send it to your boss through e.mail still with the use of Computer. As you have observed that everything is efficient and less energy, effort and time are exerted because of these technologies but enough with the Pros.


Now, I would like to talk about the Cons. These technologies can also be a problem in our society because of the fact that it makes our lives much easier, we become lazy and we tend to be irresponsible due to the fact that we rely more in these technologies for our survival in life rather than relying on ourselves and trying our best to attain what we need. These technologies are a big impact in our work ethics and in our value system because it bribes us to doing something which is unjust and wrong just for the fact that it's more easier and efficient. I would like to give an example. In my course, technologies are of a great focus because these are our expertise and there was a time that our professor gave us a project where we need to make a website that would calculate the salary of an employee, considering the deductions applied by the company/government. The programming code for this project is not easy to make, it cannot be found in the Internet also. Of course, our professor is an expert surely he wouldn't give a project which can be easily found on line. But there was a Computer Science student, my classmate in fact and indeed! he is smart but incredibly stupid, Imagine he posted the code in "Facebook" particularly in his profile and having a shout.out "Guys, here's the code you've been dying to look for! Hello Flat 1." and considering the fact that he posted it in a public site where everyone can obviously see and there's like 99.9% chance that our professor can see it, I mean for God's sake! surely our professor has Facebook and is updated with it. The next day we had our class, he was summoned and immediately given the grade of Flat 5, I guess he should have posted "Hello Flat 5!" instead. Another example is that there was a Cebuano Professor, I probably shouldn't mention his name for confidentiality and courtesy. he was asked by the President of the school that he was working for to create a wonderful oratorical piece to be presented by a student who was an excellent orator, He would be the coach and at the same time the author of the piece. Being asked to do such a job ordered by a very important person and being time pressured also left him no choice but to search for an oration piece in the Internet. Well, another dull move created by a human being! It's really a shame that he had done that, I mean he's a teacher surely he knows that what he had done was Plagiarism. How funny it must be to be the claimed author of the oratorical piece that your student is performing IN FRONT of the real author of the piece that you claimed to be yours. Coincidence? Destiny? or simply not using your brain? I don't know which is which but the thing that I know is that we all have a choice, he has just chosen the ever so deceiving easy way instead of doing the long run but worth it also. The instances that I have cited would really show that instead of using these technologies better, people tend to use it in a negative manner because it makes our lives much easier. Well, Yes! It's true unless you use it in a negative way then it would totally be the reason for your suffering.


An important note from me, you may concede or ignore it.


"It's better to suffer and succeed knowing you worked hard for it than to succeed because you chose the easy way and victory therefore, tastes bitter because you never worked hard for it and you surely didn't deserve what you earned."